第二週 · 週六

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📖晨興餧養

弗三16~17 『願祂照着祂榮耀的豐富，藉着祂的靈，用大能使你們得以加強到裏面的人裏，使基督藉着信，安家在你們心裏，叫你們在愛裏生根立基。』

聖經告訴我們，神正在我們裏面作工，基督也正活在我們裏面。然而，聖經用了一個非常顯着的辭—『建造』，表明神在我們裏面的工作。…基督安家在我們心裏…與建造有關。我們若要安家，必須先建造房子。安家含示在一個特定的地方定居。然而，我們若要定居，就必須有房子。『使基督…安家』〔弗三17〕這辭句強烈指明，祂正在我們裏面作建造的工作。基督正在我們裏面的人裏建造一個家。

〔在〕約翰十四章二十三節，…主耶穌說，『人若愛我，…我父也必愛他，並且我們要到他那裏去，同他安排住處。』本節『安排住處』這辭，等於以弗所三章十七節的『安家』。三一神已經進到我們裏面，以祂自己作元素，並以一些出於我們的東西作材料，來作建造的工作。這幾節關於建造的話，含示神在基督裏將祂自己建造到我們裏面，與我們的所是有極大的關係（撒母耳記生命讀經，二三九至二四一頁）。

📖信息選讀

〔在〕馬太十三章撒種者的比喻〔裏〕…種子〔神性〕撒到土〔人性〕裏，是憑土壤裏的養分而長大。…這種子…乃是憑着自己，並憑着土壤裏的養分而長大。…種子的出產乃是由種子和土壤的元素所組成。這裏我們看見一個重要的屬靈原則：種子要長大，就必須撒到好土裏。…在我們裏面有一些特定的養分是神所造的，豫備讓祂進到我們裏面，好在我們裏面長大。神造了人的靈，含有人性的養分。…撒到我們裏面的種子乃是作三一神具體化身的基督。種子在我們裏面長大的速度，在於我們供應多少的養分。我們供應的養分越多，種子就長得越快，並且越茂盛。

按照聖經，長大等於建造。主耶穌宣告說，祂要建造祂的召會（太十六18）。這建造是藉着我們裏面神聖種子的長大而發生的。…三一神這生命的源頭，已在基督裏將祂自己當作一粒種子撒到我們裏面。這種子一進到我們裏面，就結合我們裏面的東西—屬靈的養分，然後開始生長。…馬太十三章指明，只有好土（8、23）纔能題供足彀的養分，讓神聖的種子長大。

既然神在基督裏將祂自己建造到我們裏面，不只在於祂自己這元素，也在於我們所供應的養分，我們就需要得以加強到裏面的人裏。…我們若得以加強到裏面的人裏，並且注意我們的靈，操練我們的靈，就能供應養分；這樣基督就能安家在我們的所是裏。

在以弗所三章…保羅禱告，求父藉着祂的靈，用大能使我們得以加強到裏面的人裏。這大能，就是一章十九至二十二節所題到的，乃是使基督從死人中復活，叫祂在諸天界裏坐在神的右邊，將萬有服在基督的腳下，以及使基督向着召會作萬有的頭的能力。這樣的大能運行在我們裏面（三20），神也用這大能加強我們，為着祂的建造。神所藉以加強我們的那靈，乃是經過過程之三一神的終極完成。一面，神用祂自己作元素加強我們；另一面，我們題供養分。藉着這二者，神在基督裏就在我們的全人裏完成祂內在的建造，就是建造祂的家（撒母耳記生命讀經，二四一至二四三頁）。

參讀：神人的生活，第十三篇。

WEEK 2 — DAY 6

Morning Nourishment

Eph. 3:16-17 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, that Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

The Bible tells us that God is working in us and that Christ is living in us. However, the Bible uses a very striking term—build—to denote God’s work in us…Christ’s making His home in our hearts involves building. If we would make a home, we must first build a house. To make a home implies being settled in a particular place. However, if we would be settled, we must have a house. The words that Christ may make His home [Eph. 3:17] are a strong indication that He is doing a work of building in us. Christ is building a home in our inner being.

[In] John 14:23…the Lord Jesus said, “If anyone loves Me,…My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make an abode with him.” The words make an abode in this verse equal make His home in Ephesians 3:17. The Triune God has come into us to do a building work with Himself as the element and also with something from us as the material. The word concerning building in these verses implies that God’s building Himself in Christ into us has very much to do with what we are. (Life-study of 1 & 2
Samuel, pp. 196-197)

Today’s Reading

[In] the parable of the sower in Matthew 13, the seed [divinity] is sown into the soil [humanity] to grow with the nutrients in the soil. This seed… grows with itself and the nutrients in the soil…The produce is a composition of elements from both the seed and the soil. Here we see an important spiritual principle. In order to grow, the seed must be sown into good soil. We have within us certain nutrients created by God as a preparation for His coming into us to grow in us. God has created the human spirit with the human nutrients. The seed that has been sown into us is Christ as the
embodiment of the Triune God. The rate at which the seed grows within us depends on the nutrients afforded by us. The more nutrients we supply, the faster the seed will grow and the more it will flourish.

According to the Bible, growth equals building. The Lord Jesus declared, “I will build My church” (Matt. 16:18). This building takes place by the growth of the divine seed within us. The Triune God, the source of life, has sown Himself in Christ as a seed into our being. Once this seed comes into us, it meets something within us—our spiritual nutrients—and it begins to grow… Matthew 13 indicates that only the good soil (vv. 8, 23) affords the adequate nutrients for the growth of the divine seed.

Since God’s building Himself in Christ into us depends not only on Himself as the element but also on the nutrients supplied by us, we need to be strengthened into our inner man…If we are strengthened into our inner man and if we pay attention to our spirit and exercise our spirit, the nutrients will be supplied. Then Christ will make His home in our inner being.

[In Ephesians 3] Paul prayed that the Father would strengthen us with power through His Spirit into our inner man. This power, referred to in Ephesians 1:19-22, is the power that raised Christ from the dead, seated Christ at the right hand of God in the heavenlies, subjected all things under Christ’s feet, and gave Christ to be Head over all things to the church. Such power operates in us (3:20), and with it God strengthens us for His building. The Spirit through whom God strengthens us is the consummation of the processed Triune God. On the one hand, God strengthens us with Himself as the element, and on the other hand, we afford the nutrients. Through these two God in Christ carries out His intrinsic building—the building of His home—in our entire being. (Life- study of 1 & 2 Samuel, pp. 197-198)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 3, “The God-man Living,” ch. 13